Open for everyone

#1

Post by bradgessler » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Re: Open for everyone

#2

Post by minimaxir » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

Svbtle’s dashboard is designed to work the same way your brain works. It encourages you to dump ideas, links, and thoughts into a flow of draft posts, and then makes it easy to slowly sculpt those ideas into publishable articles. It just feels natural.

This isn't the type of marketing copy that makes me want to use the product, and in-fact drives me away from it. Contrast with Medium's more neutral, objective copy: https://medium.com/p/8d615d86ac04

Re: Open for everyone

#3

Post by orblivion » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

I did not mean to give you a Kudo. I don't care for that button interface. Unless I can undo it, then I like it.

Re: Open for everyone

#4

Post by dabernathy89 » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #3

I did not mean to give you a Kudo. I don't care for that button interface. Unless I can undo it, then I like it.

Same here - I went looking because of your comment and then accidentally kudo'd it.

Re: Open for everyone

#5

Post by lhnz » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:53 PM UTC

Anybody else get invited a few weeks back and now feel the pang of no longer being in an exclusive club? I need a hug.

Aside: I think this is a great blogging platform that turns quite a few people away because of Dustin's bravado.

Re: Open for everyone

#6

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

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Re: Open for everyone

#7

Post by debt » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

I always thought the quality of the article was more important than the quality of the blogging engine.

Re: Open for everyone

#8

Post by minimaxir » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #3

I did not mean to give you a Kudo. I don't care for that button interface. Unless I can undo it, then I like it.

That's an interesting UX decision since I'm pretty sure you could undo Kudos on the previous version of Svbtle years ago.

Are non-undoable likes the logical progression to the likes-only-no-dislikes method of social media validation?

Re: Open for everyone

#9

Post by mijustin » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

Open for everyone

My first question is: "who is this for?"

The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control?

Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post.

I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products: we go through the features, but don't identify who the product is for.

Re: Open for everyone

#10

Post by dsowers » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

If svbtle isn't quite right for you, check out Silvrback: https://www.silvrback.com/

It's similar to svbtle in its simplicity.